Improved apparatus for treating hydrocarbon-oils



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LUCIEN M. RICE, OF HARTFORD. CONNECTICUT, AND SIDNEY E.

ADAMS, OF CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 90.392, dated .May 25, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making` part of the name. n

To all lwhom Iit 'may concern Be it known that we, LUCIEN M. RIC, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, and SIDNEY E. ADAMS, of Charlestown, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Mode of Treating Hydrocarbon-Oils; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whereby a person skilled in the art can make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Like letters in the figures indicatethe same parts.

Figure 1 shows a top view of our improved apparatus for treating petroleum and other hydrocarbonoils.

Figure 2 is a vertical section through the middle of ti 1.

gOur invention consists in aerating and refining the iiuid operated upon, by projecting it upward in tine jets, and allowing it to fall, inV drops, into a proper receptacle, by means of which the more volatile portion is separated, and passes oiT into the atmosphere, and a higher lire-test is given to the oil. l 1t also consists in the machinery by which this is effected. i

A is a pan, or receptacle for receiving the fluid as it falls B is a pipe, leading from the oil-tank, or pump, which enters the side of the pan A, and is turned upward in the middleof the pan, to receive the sprinkler. The oil is forced through this pipe by a force-pump, or by leading the duid from a higher level.

C is the rose, or sprinkler through which the oil is forced, with suificientpressure to throw it upward in ue jets, which fall in the form of drops into the pan A.

11er described.

The aerated oil runs from the pan A, through the pipe D, into a proper receptacle.

The operation oi' our invention is as follows:

The oil is forced through the pipe B, and is thrown upward from the sprinkler O into the air, in the man'- The uid thus projected exposes a large surface to the action of the air, and a great portion ofthe more volatile part is vapor-ized, and passes ott into the surrounding atmosphere.

The oil falls into the pan A, and flows down to the exit-pipe in a thin layer, whereby its surface is still further exposed to the` action of the air. It then passes oft' through the pipe D.

Vire do not confine ourselves to the exact form of pan shown in the-drawings, but use any 'receptacle for the oil that presents the required surface to catch it as'it falls from the sprinkler. 'v -.The advantages ot' our` invent-ion are that a certain degree of tire-testi7 can be obtained with a much less percentage of loss than by the usual methods, and that the operation of removing the lighter and more volatile portions of the iluid is more rapidly and economically performed.

Claim.

' What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination and arrangement of the sprinkler C and its pipe B with the pan A and pipe D, for the purpose of treating and refining hydrocarbon-oils, substantially as herein described.

LUCIEN M. RICE. SIDNEY E. ADAMS. Witnesses:

JAMES-ADAMS, Guo. S. POOLE. 

